Chapter 50: Dean Rochester
The ride back to the administration building was silent, with Lisa and Hector wearing grim expressions. As both were second-generation espers, they were aware of the esper world from a young age and knew more about its depths than Kaizer or Rina.
They had heard of S-class espers, as these fellows were the ones who stood at the top of both the esper world and the real world, being the leaders of the S-rank factions or the top echelon, trained carefully from discovery to be the best of the best.
Even within the esper academies worldwide, S-class espers were super rare but not impossible. Every year there would be one or two, admitted specially to the Special Echelon for the most intense and favored training possible, their every action watched by all esper factions that would pay any price to recruit them.
And two of them were seated so close to them, and had in fact, become their acquaintances. Both Hector and Lisa had received endless favor and praise already for being B-rank espers who had the possibility of climbing to the A-rank if they developed themselves to the limit, both within their families and within the school.
But two S-class espers? They practically existed in a different time and space from them.
Hector and Lisa silently extinguished their thoughts of pursuing Rina, knowing that the kind of behemoths who would fight to procreate with this girl were existences that could destroy their families in a heartbeat.
Despite the silence in the car, Kaizer could hear everything clearly, especially the rapid thoughts of Hector and Lisa, who considered many things, revealing a lot of information for himself. It was most disjointed and based on the current circumstances, but Kaizer’s understanding of the esper world inadvertently deepened.
One thing he could glean was that a storm was about to develop between him and Rina, but that storm would only be a breeze for them and a cyclone for those close to them, as well as those interested in them, which was why Hector and Lisa were backing off, creating a subtle distance.
It didn’t matter whether Kaizer and Rina were nice people who would cherish their friends; what mattered was that those targeting them would ’cherish’ their friends even more.